Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

Learn from your past, use the possibilities of the present moment, and let the future open the doors of opportunity.

A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.

It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.